• APARNA. S. ANIL

Dr. Biju from his first movie Saira (2005) to Kaadu Pookkunna Neram , it was different path for Dr. Biju as each film addresses different social issues and holds different social concerns. Since then most of the parallel movies confined within realistic portrayal of families, their lives, their issues, rather than the issues concerned with the current issues prevailing the society. Dr. Biju’s movies thus tend to be making a new trend in Malayalam film industry. Being a homeopathic doctor, Dr. Biju opted to direct movies as he considers film as the best medium for activism. By drawing inspirations from the movies of Satyajith Ray, Majid Majidi, Roman Polanski, Kim Ki Duk and Inarittu portrays his movies with different undertones. The aspects which inspired him were their political and social approaches, the visual styles in their courage to take unusual subjects and realistic treatments. He always strives to encompass strong visuals and powerful imageries to depict his politics and social thinking. Most of the films talk about the marginalized sections including dalits and adivasi communities. According to him, it is important to be their voices, as they are also living in the same social situations in which we live and should not be marginalized or confined within the boundaries of religion, caste, class etc. So for him, being their fellow being, being an artist, he considers it as his duty to throw light on social realities and the sufferings which they face, through his films. He believes that most of the problems faced by the marginalized sections all over the world, whether it be the sections in Syria, Gaza or the suppressed sections all over the world can whether it can be the sections in Syria, Gaza or the suppressed sections in our society like the Dalit and the tribal communities, are all the same. Their economic and social statuses are poor. He also claims that challenges they face and their struggles for resistance as well as to exist in a fast developing world has same phase anywhere in the world and in certain countries, wars added to the sufferings. The aim of this paper is to analyze how Dr. Biju substantiates, through his movies Perariyathavar and Kaadu Pookkunna Neram , his social, political and ecological concerns by negotiating the lives of the subaltern sections. The movie Perariyathavar, despite its Dalit centered narrative, discusses various environmental issues by giving face to the nameless sweepers, the manual scavengers, who clean and provides rare grace and dignity. The film, apart from reading the lives of the dispossessed and marginalized, breaks a lot of stereotypes associated with the characterisation of the people from the marginalized sections, where they usually are portrayed as loud creatures, angry towards the system, mostly on the verge of revolt. Kaadu Pookkunna Neram, portrays the endless fight between the state and the cause of human rights where the characters are nameless representations of the social groups they belong. The film is a humanitarian text with its portrayal of policeman (part of the institution), also as a victim, that of ignorance, suspicions and prejudices injected to him by popular discourse and the power that be. These were represented amidst the beauty of the forests, where the narrative also portrays the relationship, the tribals or the indigenous sections hold with nature as well as how their lives are entwined with these forests.

ecology, environment, forests, dispossessed, displaced, marginalized, government

"ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL READING OF DR. BIJU’S MOVIES PERARIYATHAVAR AND KAADU POOKKUNNA NERAM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.703-715, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903K10.pdf

"ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL READING OF DR. BIJU’S MOVIES PERARIYATHAVAR AND KAADU POOKKUNNA NERAM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp703-715, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903K10.pdf